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After reading the book, I watched the film. What a disappointment the film was. The filmmakers have taken a book that explores the differences between women and men as well as issues of race, prejudice and class difference, and turned it into little more than a formulaic romance novel. I note that most of the reviewers who rated the film highly had not read the book. I encourage you to do so. It is such a rich novel–far richer than the film. What the screenwriter has done is purge the movie of all the more difficult issues the book deals with. Gone is Mrs. Turner’s discussion of race and her prejudice against darker-skinned people. Gone is Janie’s jealousy as well as the explanation for Tea Cake’s violence (of course, Tea Cake’s violence is gone, too, because he’s supposed to be the romantic hero; romantic heroes can’t hit their wives as Tea Cake does in the book). Gone are the conversations on the porch of Joe Starks store. Gone is Nanny’s explanation of her reasoning for Janie’s marriage to Logan Killicks. It’s really too bad that the production company didn’t have faith in Zora Neale Hurston’s story and felt they had to over-simplify it; I’m sure the audience could have handled it in all its complexity.
Oprah is responsible for the filming of this classic and it is a triumph indeed. It is based on the book Their Eyes Were Watching God by Harlem Renaissance novelist, Zora Neale Hurston. The reknown Miss Hurston drew colorful depictions of of her community. She used colorful characterizations that illuminated the spitit of the black America.
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Halle Berry plays heroine, “Janie”, who is African American but actually looks white. Janie Crawford is raised by a strict grandmother she calls “Nanny.” Nanny is determined to stamp out Janie’s fire by marrying her off early. In my opinion, Berry shines in this role and pulls off Janie’s sex appeal and beauty as described in Hurston’s book.
Janie’s marriage to the elderly first husband ends when she leaves him and walks off with husband number 2, Joe Starks, who promised to “show her the world.” Hurston’s descriptions of Janie’s meticulous second husband is worth noting. We peer into their disagreements about how Janie should appear before the public as the mayor’s wife and listen in on the gossip that follows as the townspeople marvel at her transformation into a lady.
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Hurston’s great dialogue captures the ongoing gossip of the townspeople who are quick to notice when things turn sour in Janie’s house-hold. They wonder what she will do with herself when her husband dies, leaving her all his money.
You will champion Janie’s strong will to be who she wanted to be and cheer her on as she sheds her mourning clothes and trades them in for pretty dresses, letting her proverbial hair down again!
When a gorgeous drifter by the name of Tea Cake comes to town, you sense what Janie will do once he catches her eye! Janie leaves her home, her business and memories of two stiffling marriages behind to run off with Tea Cake, played brilliantly by Michael Ealy. He and Halle definitely have chemistry on screen!
Of course he can’t support Janie so they live off of her money until it runs out. She feels that Tea Cake’s love “gave her the world everyday.” Things take a turn for the worse when they both get caught in a hurricane and Tea Cake gets bitten by a rabid dog. Janie ends up putting him out of his misery and goes back home to relive her memories, never regretting the decision to live the way she wanted during her brief time with her man.
Rent this DVD and experience Janie’s joie de vie in the sensual Juke joints dancing and laughing it up. But have your tissues ready for the tear jerking ending because it will definitely tug at your heart.
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